News   806-808

• Council member tells PM about   problems facing pharmacy businesses 806
• Fund developments in hospital pharmacy, say MPs 806
• PCG funds first aid course for pharmacists 806
• Nottingham science building opened 807
• Lottery funding for South London smoking cessation project 807
• Pharmacists are underused, says Shadow Health Secretary 807
• Drug Tariff update 807
• VSO calls for cheaper fluconazole 807
• Lords call for more regulation of complementary medicines 808
• Call it medicines management not pharmaceutical care, President says 808
• Multidisciplinary day for student 808

Clinical Pharmacy   809-813

• NHS supply of smoking cessation   therapies recommended 809
• Long-term safety of nicotine   replacement questioned 809
• Lotronex withdrawn in US 809
• Medication errors: room for   improvement 810
• Antidepressants are of "similar   efficacy" 810
• No UK ban for phenylpropanolamine 810
• Lack of information for arthritis   patients 810
• Risky drugs being given "too  frequently" to pregnant women 811
• Routine use of antepartum heparin   "should be challenged 811
• Preventive aspirin recommended for   flight-related DVT 811
• High cholesterol is undertreated   in England, researchers say   812
• Sex difference in post-MI treatment   812
• Low molecular weight heparin with   tirofiban "well tolerated"    812
• Low estrogen linked with heart attacks    812
• New analysis suggests early HRT   needed for fracture prevention 813
• Ebola vaccine 813

The Society   814-816

• Catalyst for pharmacy's future   (B. Parkin) 814-815
• Obituaries 816
• MEP November amendments 816

Letters to the Editor   817-821

• Phenylpropanolamine
  • Putting the record straight 817
  • Banned in sport 818
  • Lloyd's action was valid 818
• NHS plan
  • Medicines management 818
• The Journal
  • Insulting advertisement 818
• Retail Price Maintenance
  • Royal Pharmaceutical Society's stance is right 818
• Community pharmacy
  • Cannibals and missionaries 819
  • Helpful pharmacists? 819
• The Society
  • A different path 819
• The profession
  • Challenging future 820
  • Self-preservation 820
  • Precious disciplinary control 820
• Complementary medicines
  • A new era of health care 820
• Locums
  • Professionalism 820
• ADHD
  • Normal childhood behaviour 821
• Depression
  • Removing the stigma 821
• Water Fluoridation
  • May be cost-effective 821

  Broad Spectrum   822

  • Why do we do it? 822

Special feature   823-826

• Stoma care — an update (J. Breeze) 823-826

Articles   827-829

• Pharmacy in Finland (P. Mason) 827-829

Forum   830-835

• Developments in contracting 830
• New legislation on medicine supply and administration 830-831
• Debate: You are the problem because... 831
• Free diploma places 831

• Current issues in mental health 832-833

• Electronic prescribing: the way forward? 834

• Planning for sucess 835

International   836-837

• International harmonisation of quality characteristics of parenterals 836
• Preservative efficacy 836-837
• Particulate matter testing 837
• Parametric release 837

Reviews   838

• Animals in research 838
• Atlas of pharmacology 838
• Intellectual property 838
• Therapeutics 838

Products   839

• Agenerase capsules 839
• Agenerase oral solution 839
• Centyl K tablets 839
• Cipramil drops 839
• Discontinued 839
• En-De-Kay 839

• Flucloxacillin oral solution 839
• Karvol vaporiser 839

• Saliva stimulating tablets
839

• Price changes 839

• Headquarters and Local meetings 840

• Research award 840

• Births 840